Fertilizer

For weeks now, York County resident Virginia Russell said she's seen it as she drives over the reservoir on Oriana Road: a green growth sliming the water's surface. It spreads out from the rim of the 265-acre reservoir, sludging its banks like thick green scum ringing a bathtub. "My family rides through there," Russell said Monday, "and there are several of us, and we said, 'Have you seen that green stuff?' " That "green stuff" concerns her because Harwood's Mill Reservoir is part of Newport News Waterworks, which supplies drinking water to most of the Peninsula. And in some 25 years of living near the reservoir, Russell said...

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